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ChrisHB 8 Jan 6:04pm, 8 Jan 2025 23,352 posts	0 ChrisHB this is the list: Andorra, Belarus, Bolivia, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Guatemala, Ivory Coast, Kyrgyzstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mali, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Mongolia, Paraguay, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sweden, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Vatican City. I make no claims for its reliability. The US is said to have invaded only 68 countries.
NDWDave 8 Jan 6:07pm, 8 Jan 2025 20,589 posts	0 NDWDave Most of them are landlocked which I guess has saved them
Eynsham Red 8 Jan 6:40pm, 8 Jan 2025 11,701 posts	0 Eynsham Red Not from the French & Belgians in many cases.
NDWDave 8 Jan 6:42pm, 8 Jan 2025 20,590 posts	0 NDWDave Two of them are double landlocked
LipGloss 8 Jan 6:49pm, 8 Jan 2025 79,548 posts	0 LipGloss That there is a lot to look into when changing your windows 😂😂😂🫣🫣🫣
GlennR 8 Jan 8:08pm, 8 Jan 2025 77,151 posts	0 GlennR Big problem with terminology there, IMO. Britain didn't really invade its former colonies. I'm also curious as to when the British did anything to Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.
57.5 Degrees of Pain 8 Jan 8:13pm, 8 Jan 2025 26,315 posts	0 57.5 Degrees of Pain GlennR wrote:Big problem with terminology there, IMO. Britain didn't really invade its former colonies. I'm also curious as to when the British did anything to Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. I suspect the rulers of those areas so benignly invited into the British Empire might disagree.
Cerrertonia 8 Jan 8:16pm, 8 Jan 2025 22,586 posts	0 Cerrertonia If the definition is British troops present in the country, rather than 'invade', then it could be the Royal Navy's intervention in the Baltic at the end of WWI which helped Estonia & Latvia become independent. We also occupied some islands in the Baltic during the Crimean War. There may be other examples.
ChrisHB 8 Jan 8:24pm, 8 Jan 2025 23,353 posts	0 ChrisHB @GlennR GlennR Perhaps cultural invasion is counted as well as military.
57.5 Degrees of Pain 8 Jan 8:25pm, 8 Jan 2025 26,316 posts	0 57.5 Degrees of Pain This 'fact' requires a great deal more explanation. Presumably it includes relatively recent nation states that were 'invaded' when Britain attacked a previous entity (Ottoman Empire, Habsburg Empire, Imperial Russia etc) of which they were part. And didn't we fight the Bolshevics in Belarus after the Russian revolution and the end of WW1? I'm also assuming that we are only dealing with 1707 onwards as the UK didn't exist before then?